ependydad wrote:
dougrainer wrote:
Good Video. Bad news. Atwood will probably not be responsible for this problem as it is a bad install by the OEM. Yes, the design and run off of the slide cover has caused your water intrusion. The removable door needs to be installed better with a better gasket. DO NOT use silicone to seal the removable door. Your real problem is the vertical mount. It is OK to install vertical, but you must take special care tom prevent water intrusion. Your interior where all the water is, is causing the circuit board to not function. If you dried out the area and the circuit board the furnace would probably run correctly. The furnace will NOT run if you leave the chrome exhaust pipe OFF. You can just insert it into the exhaust metal pipe to run the furnace once it is dried. Without the metal exhaust pipe installed the intake impellor will just draw exhaust gas back into the chamber and snuff out the flame. If it was my unit or my customers unit, I would make and install a drip cap on top the furnace mount to make sure the water could not flow down the side of the furnace from the slide cover. Doug
That's the weird thing- in person, it looks like the circuit board itself is dry. Everything that is wet is below that separation. Everything above it seems to be dry. ...... I think.
My concern is that I don't know who installed the slide topper/awning rail since the unit did NOT come with slide toppers from the factory. I had the dealer (who is now 1000 miles away) install them. If it was the dealer, then I'm basically screwed without a fight to get reimbursed for whatever work has to be done to correct this issue. I'm asking some friends with a Spartan 1245 of the same year as mine.
Any thoughts on how to dry this thing out?
Slide Toppers were installed. That does NOT mean they were incorrectly installed. Nobody expects that the water run off would hit this one particular Furnace mount. So, this becomes an issue. It is NOT the RV OEM's responsibility. It is NOT Atwoods responsibility. It is NOT the slide cover installing dealers responsibility. It is just one of those weird things that happen. Doug
